All maps of the bays, rivers, and creeks of this Commonwealth made by the Commission showing the location of oyster-planting grounds shall be filed in the office of the Commission.
Any such map and the areas of the individual assignments of platted oyster-planting grounds shall be evidence in all the courts of this Commonwealth of all the oyster-planting grounds leased by the Commonwealth to private individuals at the time the survey and map were made.
Code 1950, § 28-122; 1962, c. 406, § 28.1-107; 1984, c. 4; 1992, c. 836.
Structure Code of Virginia
Title 28.2 - Fisheries and Habitat of the Tidal Waters
§ 28.2-500. Residency and certain oyster licenses
§ 28.2-501. Application for license to take or catch oysters or clams
§ 28.2-502. License fees for taking oysters or clams in tidal waters
§ 28.2-503. License for taking clams with tongs
§ 28.2-504. License fee graduated; penalty
§ 28.2-505. Sale of shells to Commission
§ 28.2-506. Season for taking oysters from public rocks; penalty
§ 28.2-507. Opening and closing public rocks
§ 28.2-508. Prohibited area for patent tongs; penalty
§ 28.2-509. Maximum weight for patent tongs; teeth length; penalty
§ 28.2-510. Buying, selling, or possessing unculled oysters; penalty
§ 28.2-511. Culling oysters; penalty
§ 28.2-512. Interfering with oyster inspections; penalty
§ 28.2-513. Prima facie evidence of culling violation; defense
§ 28.2-514. Possession of shucked oysters; penalty
§ 28.2-515. Dredging or scraping on private ground; permit required
§ 28.2-516. Oyster dredging or oyster dredging equipment on boat; penalty
§ 28.2-518. Dredging for oysters in James River; penalty
§ 28.2-519. Use of rakes or scrapes on ocean side of Eastern Shore; penalty
§ 28.2-520. Use of hydraulic dredges prohibited; exceptions; penalty
§ 28.2-521. Revocation of license or permit to dredge
§ 28.2-522. Prima facie evidence of violation
§ 28.2-524. Taking oysters or clams in certain areas; limitations
§ 28.2-525. Fishing in Chesapeake Bay immediately west of Tangier Island
§ 28.2-526. Oyster measures; standards; penalty
§ 28.2-527. Theft of oysters, clams, shells, etc.; penalty
§ 28.2-528. Revocation of licenses for theft of oysters
§ 28.2-529. Converting shells into lime; penalty
§ 28.2-530. Taking oysters or loading on vessel on Sunday or at night; penalty
§ 28.2-531. Taking clams on Sunday or at night; exception; penalty
§ 28.2-532. Protection of oysters and clams of Virginia; labeling; penalty
§ 28.2-533. Oysters on crab dredging boat; penalty
§ 28.2-534. Possession of oysters while taking clams; penalty
§ 28.2-535. Permit to buy or carry seed oysters from certain grounds; penalty
§ 28.2-536. Taking clams in certain areas; penalty
§ 28.2-537. Restriction on size of clams; penalty
§ 28.2-538. Record of oysters handled; penalty
§ 28.2-541. Oyster resource user fees
§ 28.2-542. Oyster Replenishment Fund
§ 28.2-546. Permit to carry oysters out of state
§ 28.2-547. Authority to inspect oysters when loaded on conveyance
§ 28.2-549. Violations; recovery of oyster resource user fees; penalties
§ 28.2-551. Surveys and reports as conclusive evidence
§ 28.2-551.1. Continuing or reestablishing historic Baylor Survey lines
§ 28.2-552. Resurvey on motion of Commission or on application of citizens
§ 28.2-553. Reestablishment of lines of Baylor survey; procedure; evidence of reestablished lines
§ 28.2-554. Sale of Baylor survey charts and plats
§ 28.2-555. Crossings of Baylor survey
§ 28.2-556. Erosion control devices within the Baylor survey
§ 28.2-557. Unlawful to threaten or hinder surveyor; rights of surveyor; penalty
§ 28.2-558. Placing permanent markers
§ 28.2-559. Removal of oysters planted by mistake
§ 28.2-560. Larceny of oysters and shells; penalty